THE LOGIC OF MADNESS

"There is a notion adrift everywhere that imagination, especially mystical imagination, is dangerous to man's mental balance. Poets are commonly spoken of as psychologically unreliable ... Facts and history utterly contradict this view. Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but extermely business-like ... Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom."

G.K. CHESTERTON, ORTHODOXY.